One Hundred Poems of Kabir - Softcover

Tagore, Sir Rabindranath

 
9781605979496: One Hundred Poems of Kabir

Synopsis

The poet Kablr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of I ndian mysticism. Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably about the year 1440, he became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic Ramananda. Ramananda had brought to Northern India the religious revival which Ramanuja, the great twelfth-century reformer of Brahmanism, had initiated in the South...

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941), is to the Indian subcontinent what Shakespeare is to the English-speaking world. A poet, playwright, painter, and educator, Tagore was also a mystic of great complexity and depth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

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